Manage schedule costs, budgets, and Business Insights
Use this guide to view labor costs, set budgets, use demand-based planning in Deputy.
In this guide:
- Get started with Smart Scheduling and Business Insights
- Set budgets and plan labor
- Understand schedule costs and warnings
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Related topics
Get started with Smart Scheduling and Business Insights
Read these articles to understand how Smart Scheduling tools and Business Insights can support schedule planning.
- Smart Scheduling 101
- Business Insights dashboard
- Using the stats panel for smarter scheduling
- Try a Smart Scheduling exercise with our sample data
Set budgets and plan labor
Use these articles to set wage or hour budgets, forecast staffing needs, and use auto-scheduling to build schedules that align with expected demand.
- Setting schedule budgets
- Labor modeling
- Using Auto-scheduling
- Add or update demand metrics (such as sales) via file upload
Understand schedule costs and warnings
Read these articles to understand schedule costs, projected costs, on-costs, and overtime warnings in Deputy.
- How do I turn on and understand overtime warnings on the schedule?
- How to assign a projected cost to your empty and open shifts
- Can I add an on cost percentage to all salaries and wage costs in the schedule?
- Why does the shift cost in the team member list on the Schedule tab differ from the scheduled shift cost?